Tag: love
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Take some standard tools for graphing data. Add the power of three-dimensional printing. Result: Data rendered not as a graph or chart, but as an object. A new frontier in the art of representing information, where it's turned into something not only comprehensible and beautiful, but touchable—an ... Read More
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Deriding the Democratic Party's "Julia" propaganda yesterday, Ross Douthat recycled a conservative truism. Unlike those admirable (because safely extinct) old-timeliberals, he wrote, today's Democrats want the government to do what families should: "The liberalism of 'the Life of Julia' doesn’t ... Read More
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Everyone in politics pays lip service to data. "Our opponents say X but the facts are plainly Y, which they would admit if they were not (pick one) deceived or paid off or deluded by weird beliefs." Is there an older political argument in the book than this? Strip away the silliness, we like to ... Read More
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If you want to understand Occupy Wall Street and the frustration, rage and sadness that drive it, you could do worse than to watch White Christmas . That's the 1954 confection of schmaltz and Irving Berlin songs that celebrates Christmas, friendship, love and show business, in a typically ... Read More
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A frequently cited objection to widespread use of the Gardasil vaccine against Human Papillomavirus is that it will give children the message that it's normal, expected and inevitable that they will have sex with a partner or partner who has had sex with others before. That is, for some parents, is ... Read More
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Have you ever poked around in the "People You May Know" box in Facebook? For the first few score people, it's a pleasure. Click: A person I forgot I knew. Click. I always wondered what happened to her. Click. Wow, seven mutual friends with this famous person! Click. Click. Click. It's fun until you ... Read More
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Take two strapping young men. Give one of them a job as a lifeguard from May until September. For the same period, pay the other one to "farm gold" in World of Warcraft, sitting in a windowless basement. Come fall, the one who has been baked by the sun will be tan (a consequence of his skin's ... Read More
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People's attitudes lag behind their times, as Hermann Broch observed. At the height of the European Enlightenment, philosophers who dreamed of universal rights accepted that men would be broken on the wheel. In the late 19th century, men who read Marx and promoted workers' rights found it natural ... Read More
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If you say "it's snowing hard out there," are you annoyed if no one gets up to shovel the walkway? Vexed, are you, by your intimates' inability to see what you meant? Do you think a long love's result should be near-wordless mind-reading? If so, here is some advice derived from the current issue of ... Read More
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Over the weekend I read Amy Chua's paean to "Chinese parents" in The Wall Street Journal with morbid fascination. What felt morbid was Chua's "Mommie Dearest" anecdote about battling with her 7-year-old because the little girl couldn't master a difficult piano piece (which involved threatening to ... Read More
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In markets, medicine, justice, politics, psychology, and economics, "Rational Man" is dead. As the science of human behavior enters the post-rational era, we no longer think of ourselves as cool calculators in pursuit of our objective self-interest. Mind Matters is about this change and its effects on how we live. It's about the reasons people perceive, feel, think, and act as they do, and the gaps between what we think we're doing and what research says we're doing. Most importantly, it's about how this sea change affects the institutions we live by: courts, hospitals, governments, stock markets and other entities that still run on the presumption that people act rationally.
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In A Shipwreck, Your Heart Is More Likely To Go On If You're Male